SOUNDTRACK: FANTASTIC NEGRITO-“Lost in a Crowd” (TINY DESK CONTEST WINNER 2015).
Fantastic Negrito won this year’s Tiny Desk Concert contest. About 7,000 people submitted entries and Negrito was chosen.
On the surface this song is pretty simple–a basic blues riff and some simple percussion, but man there’s some gritty power and conviction in this performance. The way he sings “rage” in a late verse is really great. I also really like the way the chorus is so very different–it really changes the dynamic of the stomping verses.
A couple other things I like about this song: the drums appear to be done on a box, but they sound great and there’s a super cool piercing sound he gets when he claps. This was a really good song and I’m looking forward to his upcoming Tiny Desk Concert.
[READ: January 19, 2015] Chew: Volume Five
I had been enjoying Chew so much that I’m shocked that I not only forgot about it but forgot about it for over three years! This is the trouble with annual publications. I’ve decided to try to find all of the series that I forgot about, so if you can think of something I’ve ignored for a while, let me know.
The good thing is that there have been four more books published since I last read them, so I get to indulge in four whole books rather than just one at at time.
As this book opens we learn that Tony Chu’s boss is super happy because he finally got rid of Tony Chu–his most hated agent. That’s right Tony Chu is now a traffic cop and his partner, Colby, has been transferred to the USDA–and his partner is a lion. If this whole USDA/FDA business seems weird, it is, and you need to get caught up on the series and the poultry ban. (more…)
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